Good Film, Good Premise, Bad Flow

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2003)

This movie is very well directed. The pictures are beautifully crafted. But the story is both deep and shallow.
I liked the comment it has on the human condition. That part of the story is told very very well. Rage is a contagious disease that to cure we must first understand. The second scene of the movie was marvelous. The use of that Godspeed You Black Emperor! song was well thought up and used. It built up the tension fantastically and climaxed well. It's a beautiful song and a beautiful scene. The scene at the end of the movie where the woman doesn't know whether or not our hero has the virus is fantastic. Our hero had to fill himself with rage to destroy not the infected but his non-infected enemies. Irony goes a long way.
But I hate the holes the story leaves behind to get the point across. I hated the unnecessary bad luck our heroes had when they got the flat and they just happened to get it done in perfect timing. It was predictable. What, where our heroes gonna get killed in the middle of the movie? Of course not, I knew they'd get out of it, so that was extremely lame. Why did some of the infected rush faster than cheetahs when chasing people, while others staggered across stages slowly. That was just ridiculous. The movie got tiring after a while.
I recommend it though. The main idea it tries to present is worth the trouble of the shallow areas of the movie. (7/10)